Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling
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But this is not what the military does.
And I think there were a lot of citizens of the United States that said, boy, isn't this a brave guy that he would put his uniform on and go on the steps of the Capitol and ask for impeachment.
OK, and allegedly, Major Watson had a great deal of angst about doing it, which is good, because we teach those who wear the uniform not to have any openly political opinion when they're wearing the uniform.
because it reflects on an entire two million force and not everyone agrees with you.
And plus, it causes the citizens of the nation to say, can we trust the military to be representative of all of us?
Are they now taking ideological sides because of politicians?
That's the problem with it, Jim.
I mean, anytime somebody in a uniform says something against the government, that's the first step of what one might call a potential coup action.
And that's not what the military does.
We serve all the military serves all American people.
whatever their ideological viewpoints are.
And anyone that puts on a uniform and goes to the steps and recommends a political action is in the wrong because it violates several articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
It violates a Department of Defense regulation, and it violates professionalism.
That's not what we do.
I address that in the article and say that, unfortunately, sometimes when you join the military, you give up or you're restrained in some of your constitutional rights.
And the First Amendment is one of them.
You don't talk about politics when you're in uniform.
So the action that one might take is say, OK, first of all, I'm going to talk to my commander of my thoughts.
I could say, hey, I'm a conscientious objector and won't object.
deployed to any kind of war like Iran that is being waged.
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